Successful = Sustainable?

Chi-Pong Wong is a seasoned supply chain strategist, program manager, service center manager and relations manager. He has published on leading online magazines and other popular journals. He earned a MA in Economics at SUNY Stony Brook and a MS in Computer Science at Duke University. He can be reached at Linkedin and [email protected].

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Traditionally, green project management is synonymous with governing sustainable projects that focus on increasing green energy, conserving natural resources or reducing the carbon footprint. This is only part of the story, because both management of green projects and green management of projects can contribute to the green course. In fact, any implementation of project management that optimizes its environmental, social and financial impacts while striving to fulfill its objectives can be categorized as green project management.

Green project management is also known by some as 3P project management: Planet, People and Profit, which are manifestations of the environmental, social and financial aspects. In essence, any project managed to achieve its objectives while minimizing impacts to the planet, optimizing the people facet (performance, happiness, team, etc.) and maximizing profits simultaneously could be regarded as a green project.

Good = Green?
Although there are many mechanisms to exert green project management, in theory any good project management method could be a green project management practice if green results are achieved as byproducts.

Therefore a well-managed project that meets its goals on budget, on time and on schedule has likely been greenly managed because it has avoided ineffectiveness that have the ill effect of over-straining members …

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